TY - BOOK ID - 80739298 TI - John A. MacDonald AU - Creighton, Donald, AU - Waite, Peter AU - Wright, Donald PY - 2018 SN - 1487518765 9781487518769 9781487518776 1487518773 9781487522872 1487522878 PB - Toronto DB - UniCat KW - Prime ministers KW - Macdonald, John A. KW - Macdonald, John Alexander, KW - Macdonald, John, KW - Macdonald, J. A. KW - Canada KW - Canada (Province) KW - Canadae KW - Ceanada KW - Chanada KW - Chanadey KW - Dominio del Canadá KW - Dominion of Canada KW - Jianada KW - Kʻaenada KW - Kanada (Dominion) KW - Ḳanadah KW - Kanadaja KW - Kanadas KW - Ḳanade KW - Kanado KW - Kanakā KW - Province of Canada KW - Republica de Canadá KW - Yn Chanadey KW - Καναδάς KW - Канада KW - קאנאדע KW - קנדה KW - كندا KW - کانادا KW - カナダ KW - 加拿大 KW - 캐나다 KW - Lower Canada KW - Upper Canada KW - Politics and government KW - Kaineḍā UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80739298 AB - "Sir John A. Macdonald's flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the nineteenth century, and the political structures and national policies which developed under his leadership continue to shape public issues today. Creighton's first volume takes Macdonald from his childhood and early years as a young lawyer in Kingston, Ontario, through his swift rise in political life to positions of influence, to the great achievement of uniting the colonies of British North America in Confederation. The second volume traces Macdonald's often tumultuous subsequent career in the context of a growing and often recalcitrant nation. He was Prime Minister from 1867 to 1873 and then again from 1878 until his death in June, 1891. The evocative epilogues with which Creighton concludes each volume are widely recognized as having a place among the great passages of literary prose." "P. B. Waite's introduction to this new one-volume republication provides an illuminating account of the impact that Creighton and his biography of Macdonald had on a whole generation of historians and readers."--Jacket ER -